Top Literary Fiction Books

The top 50 books in this category, curated and ranked.

Updated April 1, 2026

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Rank	Book
#1	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
#2	Animal Farm by George Orwell
#3	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#4	The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
#5	Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
#6	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
#7	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#8	The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
#9	Homer's Odyssey by Homer
#10	The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
#11	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#12	Emma by Jane Austen
#13	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
#14	A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
#15	Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#16	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
#17	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#18	The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
#19	The Color Purple by Alice Walker
#20	The Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm
#21	The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
#22	The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
#23	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
#24	The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
#25	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
#26	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
#27	The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#28	Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#29	The Iliad by Homer
#30	The Stranger by Albert Camus
#31	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
#32	Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
#33	The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
#34	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#35	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#36	Bleak House by Charles Dickens
#37	Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
#38	The Odyssey by Homer
#39	David Copperfield by Charles
#40	The Plague by Albert Camus
#41	One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
#42	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#43	The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
#44	Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#45	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#46	The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
#47	The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#48	Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
#49	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
#50	The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous